English Explanatory Dictionary

aumakua

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. In Hawaiian mythology, a personal or family god that originated as a deified ancestor, and which takes on physical forms such as animals to watch over descendants.

Word forms

aumakua aumakuas

Etymology

From Hawaiian ʻaumakua.

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